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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-30

CHICAGO Nov. 30-The appellate court
has granted supersedeas in the cases of the
convicted boodlers, Varnel, Wren, Ochs,
Ley den, Van Pelt and Wasserman, and these
prisoners, who were to have been taken to
Joliet Wednesday morning. will pro 3ably
stay in the jail here until next March, when
the case will come up before the supreme
court.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-30

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. Nov. SO-Tuesday
afternoon an order was issued to sell the
Pittsburg, Cleveland & Toledo railroad, sub
ject to s., 500, 0o0 mortgage and lease as
signed to the Pittsburg & Western Railroad
annnnanu
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-30

DETROIT Mich, Nov 30-Wells Burt,
one Of the pioneers in the Michigan mining
industry, died here Tuesday. He has not
been in good health for several years, but
arose as well as usual Tuesday morning
and breakfasted with the family. About 20
O'clock he complained of slight illness and at
1870 he expired. Mr.. Burt was born near
Buffalo in 1870, his father being W. A. Burt
inventor of the solar compass When 81
years old Wells Burt, having lived then
some years in this state with his father, was
appointed assistant United States surveyor,
and while locating many of the iron mines Of
the upper peninsula, made investments
which laid the foundations of his fortune,
which approximates s5000v0 He was
large holder of the stock of the Lake Supe-
rior Mining company, of the Peninsular Iron
company, and other operations He was
very religious man of the Baptist faith
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-30

LONDON, Nov 30-John l. Sullivan and
Charley Mitchell met at a conference of
sporting men Tuesday night, and after some
belligerent talk a fight was arranged with
bare knuckles to a finish to take place in
London after the kilrain-Smith fight. The
stakes are s., 800 and $500 was put up at
once
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-30
Some More Backing for Grevy.

PARIS, Nov 80 "A number of deputies
waited upon President Grevy Tuesday night
at the Eysee, and requested him not to re-
sign
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-30

Roman senators, Roman temples, Ro-
man Gods have all engaged the worlds
attention, but the nineteenth century has
provided the greatest Roman of them all
Salvation Oil; it kills painl
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-30

The Schafer House at the corner of
second avenue and West Seventeenth
street is for rent, 1t is partly furnished
has the best location in town, and the
rent is cheap.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-30

ST LOUIS, Nov. 30. Henry Overstolz, ex-
mavOr of this city and an old and wealthy
citizen, died Tuesday.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-30

ok per cent loans by the Rock Island
Building Association, Tuesday, December
D, 1887. Z. Fl. GUyER, Secretary.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-30
THE MARKETS.


CHICAGO. Nov. %
On the board Of trade to-day quotations ranged
as follows: Wheat No 9 December opened
76c, closed 75isc; January, opened and closed
76Itc; February, opened 1880. closed 771sc
Corn-No. December, opened and closed 46lsc
January, opened 46lsc, closed 1850: February,
opened and closed 46s4c oats-No. Deem
Der, opened and closed 2sLtc; January, opened
2sAsc asked, closed 2Sssc; May, opened S2ss l.,c
closed Stssc. Probationary opened Sl43sle
closed liU1le; February, opened SIIIs1e
closed Sl4s): May, opened SASS, closed
$15221a Larl-November, opened $7.la1s,
closed Sis nominal.
Live stoek-The Union Stock Yards report the
following range of prices: Hogs-Market opened
rather weak, later active, with prices &c higher;
light grades, 4.6oG 4so; rough packing, 81 COO
490; heavy packing and shipping lots, 81 $50
$40. Cattle Weaker, except for &c cd to choice
beeves, which sold at s44oG4e5; common to
fair, 81 75Gs75; COWS, s1.25d275; stockers,
Sl.75GS00 Sheep-Good, steady, S350a4 Is;
common, weak, St.75I3 .; lambs, $36Ol52a
Produce: Fancy creamery, sc per
ID; fancy dairy, 0Gs8c; roll l4916c; packing
stock, lelsg13c. Eggs-Fresh. soc per doz: ice
house, 17la a 1slec; picked HG16c. Dressed
poultry-Chicksns 6leG7ISc per 10; turkeys, s
Gsc; ducks, 9t1i0c; plucked geese, live S4.0O
per doz Potaioes-65975c per bu; sweet pota-
$l7543p per Dbl Cranbe rries-Bell and
cherry. s. % per Dbl; bell and bugie. Ss2i
New York.
NV YORK Nov. 20
Wheat-Steady; No. red state, CSC; No. . do,
$50 sss4c; No . red winter December, s7ssc
do January, $3.50. Confirm; No. , mixed
cash. 5sl4c: do January, 5Sc; do May. 5slSc
Oats-Stesdy; No. white state. 500 i0c; No. .
do, S6057c; No mixed December Sc Rye
Dull Barley-Nominal Pork-Duii: old mess
sl425; new do, Sl5OoG15.5O Lard-December,
SIS; January. $40.
Live Stock: Cattle-No trading; dull feeling
quiet for dressed beef; native sides, S5.5oGs 90
Colorado stock, $50OG6.OO. To-day's Liverpool
cable reports American refrigerator beef dull
and lower at scant &c y D Sheep and lambs-A
shade frmer and all sold; common to good sheep
s. 6O@475; ordinary to prime lambs, $5.5OG
go. Hogs-y1ry quiet; live hogs, S5OOG5 80
ROCK ISLAND.
Oate-New 96cG2Sc.
Ay-Timeiny-SlSG140O.
Hay-Wild, SS:t0G$l2.OO.
Rye-45c.
Corn--Nsw, ssG3jc.
Potatoes-55Q6Oc.
Oos-Soft lie nsid % 90
Cord Wood-Oak, $500; Hickory S.
Straw-S7 90: bsled 50. 90.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-30

NEW YORK, Nov. SO-A dispatch to Tho
World from London says: Scotland Yard,
which is the headquarters of the London po-
lice, is busy working up great dynamite ex-
posure. The officials there claim to have evil
dence of new conspiracy, matched in Amer
lea, for the assassination Of Secretary Ba!tour
and for the destruction of public buildings in
London. They propose to defeat this con-
spiracy by publishing its details The officials
now feel very comfortably about any dyna-
mite attempts They say that they have
men in every dynamite organization in Amer
lea, who keep them thoroughly advised of
every movement planned in that direction.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-30

Henry Ward Beecher's books, pictures
and brio brac are soon to be sold.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-30

NEW YORK, Nov. 80 The following were
elected on the directorate of the New York,
Lake Erie & Western Railroad company at
the annual meeting Tuesday: John King,
John G. Mccullough, Ogden Mills J. Low
Der Welsh, William Whitsright, W. A
Wheelock, II. H. Cook, G. w. Quintard,
William Libbey, C. Parker, M K Jesup, J.
J. Goodwin, W. B. Dinsmore, W. L Strong,
W. N. Gilchrist, Joseph Belden, Joseph Og-
den
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09

forcibly torn off and otherwise mutt
lated. | remember one case particularly
CHASTITY. A woman was seen in the rig
ging. Her eyes were wide open and the
swaying of the mast made her seem to be
motioning for help. The men hurried to
her and found her stark dead This is
but one of many incidents that happened
then and afterward. For, although the
destruction of the ship closed the first
chapter of the tragedy, second soon
opened in the casting up of the bodies
This began almost Immediately, and the
beach, from SandyHook to Barnegat inlet,
was strewn with them; the greater num-
Der, however, being found between Sea-
bright and Great pond Near these places
nearly every available building was con-
verified into morgue. At the "Pa-
vilion" Hotel, now the "Atlantic," the
bowling alley was actually filled with
bodies. They would be collected as they
washed up, taken to one place, and then
buried from there The visitor to the
Branchburg cemetery will now have two
long, dreary-looking trenches pointed out
to him, in which over two hundred of
the victims lie. None were ever identi-
fed or claimed by friends. The Inflated
people were mostly Germans of the
better class who had come to the new
country provided with money to buy
themselves homes Nearly all the bodies
had jewels and other valuables on them,
and some large sums of money.
These of course were secured and kept
to be "called for" 1t is said that in one
house on the coast there was a room
packed "solid full'' of clothes and
other things taken from the bodies.
What ultimately became of these is not
known, but we will prefer thinking that
they were turned over to the proper
authorities rather than to believe the
ugly stories that are still told around the
grocery stores on stormy nights. The
cargo of the vessel was very valuable
one, consisting of fine dry goods,
fancy articles, and toys. These kept
drifting up during the winter, and
whenever storm made fresh inroads in
what was left of the hull, the beach
would be strewn with merchandise.
On these occasions the intrepid
bleach combef' would be seen armed
with hook and line, watching eagerly for a
chance to catch something. distinctly re-
member being the owner OF doll that was
picked up by some member OF my family.
1t was headless; but attached to wire,
where the head had been, was pair of
staring eyes that possessed a horrible
fascination for me- | was afraid to be
left alone with it, The old hulk worked
over the bar short time after the wreck
and lay in sight quite near the shore till
a few years ago, when, during heavy
storm, it was loosened from the sand and
washed into the mouth of Great pond
Whether it broke up entirely there or
has again drifted away, l know not, but
it is seen no more.
MRS S. B. MCINTYRE,
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09
A TERRIBLE WRECK.
LOSS OF THE EMIGRANT SHIP NEW
ERA ON THE JERSEY COAST.
The Wild Scenes of Grief and Terror on
the Doomed Craft-People Lining the
Beach Unable to Do Aught to Save the
Passengers from a Watery Grave.
rCoDUriGhted. 1851

No one can have q half hours con-
versation on beach lore with one of the
older inhabitants of the Jersey coast
anywhere between Sandy Hook and
Shark river without being asked:
"Ye've heerd of the New Eery,' hain't
yer?" And then if you chance to reply
in the negative, you will get the follow
ing story, but told in Jersey vernacular:
In the early morning of November 2,
1854, the German packetship New Era"
stranded on the outer bar, short dis
lance south of Great pond, now Deal
lake, and the northern boundary of As
bury Park. A fearful storm was raging
at the time and the waves were literally
mountain high" A life-saving station
is just north of Great pond, and its
crew soon reached the scene of the
wreck. But this service was then in
its infancy, and with its primitive
equipments, the chances of giving any
help, in the teeth of those waves, were
very slight. The men looked at the ship
with white faces. They could see that
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09

staying on the ship. But after much
hard work and trouble some of the people
were safely landed, and from them it
was learned that there were 600
souls on the vessel This was appalling
news. The landing by the car was so
slow, not more than one or two being
brought at a trip, that it was manifestly
impossible to save one-ffth of them that
way, and unless the ship should hold to-
gether until the surf went down suffi-
GENTLY to send boats out, nearly all
would be lost.
as they spoke of this chance, for they
we'll knew that oak and iron could not
long withstand those terrible blows from
natures battering ram. And only too
soon their fears were realized and the
ship began to break up. Then a climax
of horror was reached that in it's reality of
terror outshadowed Dante's blacklist
fancy. The shrieks and walls became mad
dening. Men and women fought their way
into the rigging, where they hung, sway
ing and begging for help till numbed by
cold and exhaustion they would drop to
death into the seething abyss below.
And all the while each wave as it swept
over the deck took with it struggling
human freight. The Generalization on
the ship was so complete that the life-car
was abandoned, and the would-be savers
on the beach could do nothing but stand
idly by and watch the terrible work of
death.
The vessel began to break up about
noon, by which time news of the dis
aster had spread far and wide, and
crowds came focking to the beach The
writer, who was then of very tender
years, can distinctly remember how the
family coach" was ''hooked up" in
haste to go to the wreck, the bitter tears
she shed on being told she was o>lit-
tie to 60 to such places" and also the
"envy, hatred and malice she felt for an
older and more fortunate sister, A
thousand people soon collected on the
shore; but thousand were as futile to
save as one, and the despair of their
helplessness but perfected the picture of
general desolation. Men rushed blindly
over the heavy wet sand, some cursing,
some praying, many sobbing aloud.
Women shrieked and tainted, and not
few attempted to rush into the sea;
and meanwhile this terrible sea kept ON
its terrible, p:tiless work. The ship was
iron-hearted, and slowly one by one she
yielded her limbs to the destroyer. But
the fight was too unequal Suddenly
wilder, more terrific shrek rose from the
deck-a shrek which the crowd caught,
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09

and sent wailing back again scarcely
less wild echo The vessel had parted
midship, and the stern with all it's load
of human life was swallowed by the
waves. That shrek was the death-knell
of only the last great day will tell how
many.
1t seemed as if this wholesale sacrifice
appeased in a measure the demon of the
storm, for soon after the surf began to
fall and in few hours boats were sent
out to what was left of the ship, and the
few half-drowned creatures who were
still clinging to the rigging were rescued.
These, added to those already landed IN
the life-ca made but few over 100 in all
who were saved of the 600 on the ship.
AT least this is the number generally &C
cepted as correct, although many people
claim that one of the officers who was
saved put it at between 500 and
1000 Be the number either, the New
Era" claims and is justly entitled to the
distinction of being the most terrible
wreck of the Jersey coast. At that time
there was not a hOu Sc on the beach be-
tween Great pond and Shark river.
Iook at Asbury Park alone to-day and
trv to realize that Also try to realize
that man willing to give fifty cents an
acre for the land then would have been
considered demented) The station-house
was quite near the creek, but the accom-
modations there were both meagre and
scant, and many Of the rescued would
have suffered sadly and possibly have
died but for the noble hearted generosity
of Mr. and Mrs Abntr Allen, whose hos
pitable hole stood then, as now, short
distance north of the station-house.
Here most of the sufferers were taken,
and here they received every care and
comfort those two true old-fashioned
Quaker hearts could give them. Mr..
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09
The Pitcher should Have the Cream.

Toni hear Dick has joined the baseball
Harry don't know about that; but if
the managers are consistent he will get the
cream of the payroll.
T.-Why so?
H.-oh. because he's the pitcher of course.
Boston BUDGET
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09

very difficult to
operate t h i s,
and the dam
ger of being
drowned on
the passage to
the shore was
almost as great
as at of
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09
SIGNS AND OMENS.
SOME OF THE SUPERSTITIONS
THAT CLING TO THE FARM.

sassafras as Charm Against the Adding
of Eggs-Immunity of the sycamore
from Lightning-Some of the Folklore
of Colored Farm Hands-Insect Auguries.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09
Unappr eciative Little Jobnnv.

UmHppF eCIaGfVe LICIIe JUnMny.
Mamma" said little Johnny, looking up
with thoughtful expression on his counte
nance.
"WelI, dear" said mamma.
Mamma, why do you tell me you'll give
me good whipping sometimes? I can't see
anything good about it''-Pittsburg Press
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09

Alien and his vile nave DOth
been gathered to their rest,
but the story of their ministra-
tons to those brothers in their
dark trial will long be a bright
and shining monument to their
memory. The sight that met
the men who first went out
to the ship is said to have
been a study of horrors. Among
the debris on the decks and
in the rigging were corpses in
every conceivable condition
some stark and stiff, others
twisted and doubled out of
shape and not a few with limbs
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09

the deck was crowded
with human beings, and
in the lulls of the wind
they could plainly hear
their piteous cries for
help. What could they
do? 1t was impossible
to launch a boat, but
finally, after many fail
ures, they succeeded in
shooting a line to the
ship, on which a life-car
was sent out. Owing to
the high surf, it was
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09
NO NATTER WHAT

May be the preliminary symptoms,
"WoRTHINGToN's" can be de-
pended upon. 1t is no new thing just
introduced, but an old and standard
remedy, known the country over and
recognized as in every way worthy
the good words said of it.
Druggists everywhere keep it, the
price being
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09
PEOPLE DON'T THINK,

AS rule, of the possibilities, and
therefore when the emergency comes
they are lily prepared for it. Those,
however, who go to the COMPARE
lively trihing expense of a quarter
of dollar and keep a bottle of the
WoRTHINGToN remedy in the house
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09
The New Orleans Medical

The New Orleans Medical
Journal points out the danger
to the country at large. Should
the plague reach the Isthmus
and Mexico it would soon be
in New Orleans and in little
while would sweep over the
Mississippi Valley and hurry
on to the North. The disease
has its regular rounds to make,
although it does not always
take the same route. Its period
ical march through the world
must by some mysterious de-
cree or law be accomplished.
We see that slowly and with
much lettering by the way it is
still progressing, and that it will
go over the whole course ap-
pears hardly questionable.
Eminent physicians agree in in
dorsing "WoRTH1NGToN's" as a pos.
tive specific for all irregularities O.
the character which precede the
dreaded disease.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09
NO ONE CAN TELL

What may come now that Summer
IS upon US in dead earnest. A late
Spring gave the warning and the
heat may be intense.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09
TENNYSON'S LOCKS.

How They Reminded a Student of One of
the Laureate's Poems.
During long cruise it is customary, we
believe, on man-ofwar, to give the crew a
playday now and then, the summons being,
An hands, ahoy to make mischiefn For
an hour or two Jack, being at liberty to
make as much fun as he pleases, behaves
like a schoolboy just let out. The under
graduates Of Oxford are entitled by custom
to turn .'commencementd day." when degrees
ing, and they uproariously avail themselves
of the privileges. One of their amusements
is to chaff the distinguished men who enter
the Oxford Theatre where commencement
is held to receive honorary degrees. A few
years ago the poet Tennyson was honored
by Oxford with the degree of D. c. L. When
he entered the theatre, on his way to the
who confers the degrees, the students in the
gallery noticed the poets disheveled hair,
hanging in disordered locks on his shoulders,
and voice called out to him, "Alfred, did
your mother call you early, dear?" Those
who are familiar with the "Queen Of the
May will recall the opening line:
You must wake and call me early, call me
early, mother dear.
He Heard it.
"Boy!" called patrolman on Antoine
street as he hurried into the alley to find a
lad coming out of back gate, did you hear
that report of gum"
"You bet! was the reply.
"Where was it?''
SIN our back yard"
'"Who fired it?'
II did, and don't keep me here any longer
Dad was in the woodshed when l fired at
cat, and the way he is cussing and thrashing
around guess missed the cat by about six
feet p'-Detron Free Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09
CAN READ THIS

From widely-known newspaper on
the grave question of the hour-the
possible spread of the Cholera:
St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-09
BUT A QUARTER.

Sold By Druggists and Dealers throughout the United
States. Price t,penty. fve cents
Four bottles will be sent to any part OF the
United States, expressage paid, upon receipt Oh
S1OO.
THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO., Baltimore, NO.,
SOLE PRoPRIEToRs.
The Delta independent., 1887-04-05
County Oaeer..

County Commissioners-First district, Rob't
Hamilton second district, Thos. u. Mower; third
district, David Stephens. i.
Clerk and Recorder-E. L. Kellogg.
shsrin-Ben. 3. Gheen.
Treasurer-T. II. McGnnahan.
County Judge-Alffed X. King.
Surveyor-Wm. l.. Marcy.
Assessor-N. N. Goodwin.
Superintendent Of Schools B. McGlnty
Coroner-Charies A. Davis.
County Auorney-A. Z. AmsbArv
The Delta independent., 1887-04-05
Cutting or the Passes.

PIrTsBURG. March S0.-The PENN
sylvania Company, operating the lines west
Of Pittsburg, issued its Official circular to-
day, for its passenger department, in con-
formity with the provisions Of the Inter
State Commerce law. The agents are in
structed to restore passenger rates to the
full regular tariff, and to be sure to sell no
tickets for less than the specified rates. All
sub-agents are to be discharged at once.
Special reduced rates for all classes of per-
sons, including those heretofore issued on
account Of freight shippers, manufacturers,
commercial travellers, theatrical companies,
circuses, base ball clubs, students, hunters,
fishermen, steamboatmen, police, members
Of the press, hotels, charity, laborers, Ma
tional soldiers homes, mayors, orders, and
Sisters of Charity, abolished. Mileage
tickets Of every kind except for
advertising are withdrawn. Contracts
made with local newspapers for
the year 1887 TO pay for advertising and
transportation, however, will be carried
out Local tickets 70 ministers will be con-
tinue at two cents per mile, - will also
round-trip tickets for thirty days. The cir
cular IL dated March 50 and II win 20 into
erect on April /.
The Delta independent., 1887-04-05
stanley in Africa.

A letter has been received from
Henry NJ. Stanley, dated Cape Town, March
0. He expresses bewilderment at the con-
slant evidences he sees of the British yield
ing and shrinking in Africa before the
noise, bluster and mock heroics "ln the
west and nortfl.' He says: 'France and
Portugal have strobe with xudacious and
frantic haste to exclude British trade. Now
come to Zanzibar. There find that the
British fleet has given way to the German,
and that the German traders outnumbered
the British. There is q relentless aggres-
siveness about the Germans that is omtn-
Gus. Their manner is naughty and over
bearing, and 1t carries an air Of you must
The natives look on in wonder, while the
British affect superb Indifference.
II found Tippoo Tib, the uncrowned
King of the region between Stanley Falls
and Tanganyika Lake, commanding thous-
ands of fighting Arabs. He was equally
ready to fight or be employed. chose the
latter, not with the view to his helping me
reach Emin Bey, but to assist in bringing
away the Emin's store Of ivory, valued at
$4,000.
"In the presence of the British Consul, l
contracted with Tippoo Tib to supply me
with coo carriers. also, after receiving con-
sent from King Leopold, appointed Tippoo
the Governor of Stanley Falls at regular
salary. He guarantees to defend that station
against the Arabs and to defeat and cap
ture all persons who are raiding for slaves,
and to abstain from engaging in the slave
traffic himself. Below the Falls European
officer will be appointed as Resident at
Stanley Falls, to insure adherence to this
contract, and to stop Tippoo Tbs salary
upon any breach of tho engagement
"So far, there has been no hitch in the
expedition. Everybody shows the utmost
sympathy, and our difficulties have been
smoothed by the prevailing good feeling. l
have sent letter to Emin Bey, giving him
the probable date of our arrival, and Tip
poo Tib has ordered his people to concen-
trate ut Stanley Falls in readiness for
marching"